Posts for May, 2022

Come and enjoy live entertainment in our bothy bar

Come and enjoy live entertainment in our bothy bar

Come and enjoy live entertainment in our bothy bar

Explore the fascinating world of moths and discover why they are so important!

Take a daytime walk through any natural habitat and you’ll be surrounded by a large number of moths, but you probably won’t see any of them because they are so good at hiding. However, by running a light trap overnight, we can catch these nocturnal fliers and take an up-close look at them in the morning.

If you haven’t attended a moth-trapping session before, we can guarantee that you will be amazed by the beauty and diversity of moths. As well as going through the night’s catch, we will talk about rare moths at Insh Marshes, such as Dark Bordered Beauty and Cousin German, and how Cairngorms Connect are monitoring moth communities at a landscape scale.

Some areas may be rough underfoot. The route is unfortunately not suitable for wheelchairs or buggies, and we recommend sturdy footwear.

Children over 12 welcome, under 18s with an accompanying adult.

A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig

About this event
Living in a cabin deep in the Oregon forests, Rob is a former chef turned reclusive truffle forager. He hunts for truffles with the help of his prized pig. When the pig is stolen, Rob and his supplier Amir have to infiltrate an underground fighting ring, locate a group of impoverished drug addicts, eat in trendy haute cuisine restaurants, all in the search of Rob’s beloved pig.

This title is rated 15, nobody younger than 15 can view a 15-rated film.

There will be snacks and drinks available to purchase before the screening – please don’t bring your own. There will be a licenced bar.

Please follow all Covid-19 guidelines whilst in the YMCA building.

Tickets are non refundable or transferable, entrance after performance start is not permitted. Refunds will only be given if a performance is unable to take place due to technical reasons.

From DreamWorks studios comes The Bad Guys! After a lifetime of legendary heists, notorious criminals Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Shark and Ms. Tarantula are finally caught. To avoid a prison sentence, the animal outlaws must pull off their most challenging con yet — becoming model citizens. Under the tutelage of their mentor, Professor Marmalade, the dubious gang sets out to fool the world that they’re turning good.

This title is rated U and is suitable for family viewing

There will be snacks and drinks available to purchase before the screening – please don’t bring your own.

Please follow all Covid-19 guidelines whilst in the YMCA building.

Tickets are non refundable or transferable, entrance after performance start is not permitted. Refunds will only be given if a performance is unable to take place due to technical reasons.

A full line up of acts all to raise funds for.local charity ram.charity
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Raffle
Teas
Coffees and homemaking
Under 12s go free

Much conservation activity serves to stop or, more dismally, merely slow the rate of biodiversity loss. But I will argue in this talk that island restoration offers the possibility of a net biodiversity gain, potentially in perpetuity. This is especially true when invasive species threatening native wildlife can be eradicated. The talk will particularly focus on projects around the world that have removed rats, goats and cats from oceanic islands over the past 30 years. During this time expertise has grown and projects on ever-larger islands have become achievable, with clear gains for seabirds and other native species.

Over the past 30 years, it has become possible to document the geographical movements and activities of seabirds when they are out of sight and beyond the horizon of the land-bound observer. This has been achieved via electronic devices attached to the birds. It is these findings that form the basis of Michael Brooke’s talk; the depths (up to 500m) reached by diving penguins, the 10,000 km loops undertaken in 20 days by petrels during incubation while the mate incubates, the speeds (130 km/hr) attained by albatrosses blasted across the Southern Ocean by a tailwind.

In this engrossing talk, Conor describes how his search in the archives for 19th Century traces of the goshawk led him to W H Hudson. A life-size oil painting of Hudson hangs above the fireplace in the main meeting room at RSPB HQ in Sandy. The more Conor finds out, the more intrigued he becomes that this once celebrated author and naturalist has been largely forgotten. Delving deeper, Conor discovers an unschooled, impoverished, battle-scarred immigrant who befriended the ‘Bird Society’s’ founding women – the only man in the room when they first gathered in a Croydon drawing room in 1889. By the end, Hudson was so revered that a bird sanctuary and sculpture was created in his memory in Hyde Park, and unveiled by the Prime Minister. Conor’s journey of discovery also takes him on a pilgrimage to Hudson’s South American homeland, to find that Senor Hudson is still revered there, including by the RSPB’s partner organisation. And a project close to Hudson’s childhood home, to create a vast national park, were funded by the British Birdwatching Fair. Conor links Hudson’s life and legacy to today, and compares then and now. A costume drama, with plenty of birds.